Although we still have several more scans to come, this is possibly the last one that will give us a reasonable print-out.
I’m deducing this from the notice taped up in the ultrasound waiting room that suggests that after 30 weeks, you can’t fit enough of the baby into an ultrasound view to make a print-out worthwhile… (Implication being that you might as well save that £3.50 you were about to spend on a ticket for a print-out. 
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So here’s our little guy (head and chest at any rate) at 24 weeks:
Definitely Tom’s profile…
At this scan, they confirmed that he’s growing nicely (meeting all their targets), and they estimate he’s 650g. Good to know. Just a little daunting to think that ideally he’s going to get 5 — 6 times heavier than that in the next several months! :zipit:
We still have the 32 and 36 week “growth-scans” to go, so I guess I’ll be getting to see a fair bit more of him. But it’s going to be a fairly disjointed viewing once things gets all bunched up in there, and the one above is likely to be the last prenatal snapshot.
We do have one more slightly unusual scan coming up at 28 weeks, which might yield a picture if the doctors are amenable. This one is a 3-D scan, specially to check on his lip.
The doctors are burning to know if the cleft goes any further than the lip, so while they keep telling us that it is really hard to diagnose a cleft palate in advance, this is their last stab at seeing if they can tell. Not that we’re complaining — another interesting scan, courtesy of the NHS, is certainly worth the minor effort required on our part! Watch this space.
